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Takeyuki Okumiya was born in 1856. His father, Sososai, was a Confucian scholar and tutor to Lord Yodo Yamanouchi of Tosa.
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Takeyuki Okumiya was prohibited to make speeches in Tokyo Prefecture. He therefore became a vaudeville storyteller with the name of Kakumei Senseido and preached on civil rights in the guise of feudal stories, for which he was imprisoned. He organized the Shakaito (literally rickshaw men's party but the name is pronounced the same as Socialist Party) (1884), with rickshaw pullers as members. He held meetings with them in the compound of the Kanda Myojin Shrine. While on his way to Kagoshima (1885), he happened to meet in Nagoya Jiyuto radicals who plotted to overthrow the government. He directed their plans and was arrested in Tokyo and sentenced to life imprisonment (released on amnesty in 1896). Devoted himself to study of social movements, traveled in Europe and America and started writing a history of the world's social movements. Involved in the Iese majesty case of Shusui Kotoku and was executed.
